SPIELBERG, AUSTRIA – Nico Rosberg has won the Austrian Grand Prix after fending off teammate Lewis Hamilton in the final stages of the race to claim his third victory of the season.

The German driver started third on the grid, and was forced to fight with the Williams duo of Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas after they had locked out the front row on Saturday. Ultimately, they could not prevent the Mercedes cars from getting past, and eventually had to settle for third and fourth place come the checkered flag.

The result does mark Bottas’ first ever podium finish in Formula 1, as well as the team’s best result of the season. However, it was Rosberg who left the Red Bull Ring with the biggest smile after fighting off his teammate and extending his lead in the drivers’ championship to 29 points.

Off the line, Massa made a good start to hold on to his lead, but teammate Valtteri Bottas became bogged down and was overtaken by Rosberg into turn one. The Finn soon made up for it by re-passing the Mercedes driver, only to soon have two Silver Arrows in his mirrors after Lewis Hamilton surged from ninth on the grid up to fourth by the end of the first lap.

Sebastian Vettel’s disastrous weekend got even worse on the second lap when his Red Bull car lost drive. His race appeared to be over, only for the RB10 to burst back into life one minute later. Although he was a lap down on the rest of the field and stone dead last, he was still running, and was given the call from his engineer to simply “go racing”. However, his race eventually came to an end on lap 37 when Red Bull decided to retire the car.

At the front, Massa and Bottas continued to forge ahead and keep the chasing Mercedes cars at bay. The Brazilian driver was told to keep looking after his tires, but seemed to be keeping a cool head in the lead. After a poor start, Daniil Kvyat began to fight back by overtaking Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo around the outside of turn five with a very impressive move, but Toro Rosso threw it away by unsafely releasing its Russian driver.

Rosberg was the first of the front-runners to pit, coming in on lap eleven, with Hamilton following suit two laps later. The Briton was unable to get the jump on his teammate, but both managed to pass Massa when he came in. The Brazilian driver emerged from the pit lane behind Rosberg and ahead of Hamilton, only for the latter to pass him a few corners later. Bottas was unable to keep Williams in the lead, coming out behind Rosberg after stopping, but by staying ahead of Hamilton he kept the team’s hopes of a race win alive in third place.

The race lead went to Force India’s Sergio Perez, who had started on the prime tire. Just as he did in Canada, he bunched the chasing cars together, and was doing a good job to stay ahead in his bid to make up for his retirement in Montreal.

However, his tires soon began to give way, allowing Rosberg and Bottas both to make it past and into the top two positions. Hamilton followed suit on the next lap, with Massa eventually gaining the place when Force India pitted their Mexican driver, dropping him down to eighth place.

Now leading, Rosberg was lucky not to lose a place to Bottas just a few laps later after running wide at turn one. The Finn closed up on the back of the championship leader, and refused to relent despite the other Mercedes being on his tail. Rosberg regained his composure, and continued to lead as the race passed half distance.

As the team looked to secure another one-two finish, Rosberg and Hamilton were both given the call to push on the final few laps of their stint before pitting for a second time. The status quo remained at Mercedes after the stops, with attention turning to Williams and Bottas at the front. When the Finn did pit, the combination slow stop and a fastest lap from Hamilton meant that he lost a position to the British driver.

Rosberg was soon informed that he was racing Hamilton until the end of the race, with just 1.5 seconds separating the pair after they had passed Bottas. Fernando Alonso enjoyed his first few laps in the lead of a race in 2014 as he went longer on his second stint before pitting with 23 laps to go, handing the lead to the Mercedes duo.

The two Silver Arrows began to fight it out at the front, trading quicker lap times and keeping the gap steady. Further back, Massa found himself trailing Perez once again, and – following their altercation in Canada – stayed behind the Force India and waited until the Mexican made his final pit stop. Perez came back out in eighth place on a set of super-soft tires ahead of teammate Nico Hulkenberg.

As the laps whittled down, Hamilton asked his team for updates on where he could be quicker. Despite matching Rosberg, he simply could not find a way past. The German driver crossed the line to claim his third win of the season, and, perhaps more importantly, increase his championship lead over Hamilton to 29 points.

Despite not converting its front row lock-out into a race win, Williams was left happy as Valtteri Bottas secured his first ever podium finish in Formula 1 and the team’s best result of the season.

Alonso began to catch Massa in the final few laps of the races, but was unable to find a way past his former teammate and had to settle for fifth place come the checkered flag. Perez managed to fight back from his grid penalty to finish sixth ahead of Kevin Magnussen and teammate Nico Hulkenberg. Daniel Ricciardo came home in ninth for Red Bull, and the final point was claimed by Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen.

After a difficult qualifying session on Saturday, Mercedes will be delighted to have claimed its sixth one-two finish in eight races. However, after losing yet more ground to Rosberg in the drivers’ championship, Hamilton will know that only a win will do at his home race, the British Grand Prix, in two weeks’ time.

The second season of “Dinner with Racers,” presented by Continental Tire, drops its first batch of episodes today.

The 28-episode season follows the first 28 episodes released last year. This year, podcast hosts and sports car veterans Sean Heckman and Ryan Eversley saddled up in a Honda Odyssey minivan for the cross-country tour, while riding on Continental Tires.

There’s some great guests and details. Here’s the full breakdown, plus a video, below:

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One year after the successful debut of the motorsport podcast series “Dinner with Racers,” the antics of Ryan Eversley and Sean Heckman have returned for the binge release of “Season Two,” launching today. Following their 2015 debut that featured a month-long road trip recording 26 conversations “over dinner” with some of the most interesting characters in motorsports, the duo will launch another 28 recordings for their 2016 adventure. The second season will be released in two waves, with “Release One” launching the first 14 recordings immediately, and “Release Two” featuring an additional 14 recordings slated to release on December 16. All episodes can be found at www.dinnerwithracers.com or via iTunes.

Traveling for 40 days across 29 states, and covering 12,000 miles in 2016, the trip was made possible in part by the Honda Odyssey that was lent to the team by American Honda Motor Co., Inc, and most importantly thanks to a continuing title partnership with Continental Tire, who not only provided Cross Contact LX20 tires for the trip but covered the team’s expenses, as well as every meal.

Continuing the same theme from the debut season, #DWR2 follows a nearly identical format. A factory racing driver for Acura in the World Challenge series, Ryan Eversley makes up half of the hosting lineup, with motorsport marketing / creative content veteran Sean Heckman completing the duo. Using their unique blend of humor, insight, experience, as well as genuine love of the sport, Eversley and Heckman pick up right where they left off in Season One, exposing some of the most unique and entertaining stories from their variety of guests.

Meeting up with 28 different characters “over dinner,” listeners will exposed to a variety of personalities, everything from NASCAR and IndyCar star drivers, to some of the most respected engineers and mechanics, journalists, and broadcasters in the business. Stories cover everything from what it was like to be the first woman to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 and then Daytona 500, to giving up a contract worth over $2mil just to be a “good guy,” to turning a satiric twitter account in to a full-time job, as well as enjoying life after nearly three decades in prison. Topics include everything from a transgender pig, to being given dead cat whiskers as a good luck charm, to having guns pulled in the middle of a race shop, and even buying a race track in the hopes of laundering money through it.

For Ryan Eversley, a chance to continue the series was a welcome one.

“I know it’s a cliché, but It truly is such an honor and a privilege to be able to do this,” stated Eversley. “Both Sean and I were truly blown away by the fan support from Season One, it’s honestly something we weren’t expecting. It really meant a lot to get so many nice comments, and that kept us very motivated for Season Two. I think our genuine love of the sport translates when people listen, because we really enjoy hearing the real back stories in what makes everyone so unique. This season did not disappoint us at all. This show lives and dies by its guests, and we couldn’t have been luckier to have such a great group who were not only engaging and interesting, but also incredibly gracious with their time. It’s an absolute blast doing this, and we really appreciate Continental for continuing their support, as well as Honda for giving us an incredibly comfortable car for such a long trip.”

For Sean Heckman, a similar sentiment is shared.

“What he said,” stated Heckman.

Additionally, the series will continue to support less exposed musical acts, with each episode promoting a variety of musicians and bands at the close of every episode.

Ahead of the event in Las Vegas, each of the 10 of the sim racers that have qualified have been paired up with a Formula E team.

“I’d like to officially welcome the sim racers who qualified through the Road to Vegas Challenge to participate in the inaugural Visa Vegas eRace,” Formula E CEO Alejandro Agag said.

“I’ve been following the progress of the sim racers throughout the qualification process, and I can’t wait to see them on the same track as the rest of the Formula E grid.

“Accessibility and fan engagement are two of the key cornerstones of Formula E, and what better way to promote this than getting the sim racers to compete in the same colours as their Formula E counterparts – it will be fascinating to see who comes out on top.”

Verizon IndyCar Series stars Ryan Hunter-Reay and Graham Rahal will complete the eight-driver lineup for the 2017 Rolex 24 at Daytona in the pair of Michael Shank Racing Acura NSX GT3s.

These two drivers join the previously announced six-pack of Andy Lally, Ozz Negri, Jeff Segal, Katherine Legge, Mark Wilkins and Tom Dyer. The first four are the full-season drivers while Wilkins and Dyer are the third drivers for the full Tequila Patron North American Endurance Cup slate of races. Daytona, as a 24-hour race in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship schedule, makes up the longest round where four drivers are expected for most entries.

Exact lineups are yet to be determined. Both Hunter-Reay (No. 28 DHL Honda) and Rahal (No. 15 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Honda) run Hondas in IndyCar, and switch from their previous teams in IMSA. Hunter-Reay was third driver in the No. 90 Visit Florida Racing Corvette DP last year, Rahal the fourth driver in one of the BMW Team RLL BMW M6 GTLMs.

Both Hunter-Reay and Rahal will test the car at Daytona next week.

“We’re thrilled to have Graham and Ryan join the Michael Shank Racing effort at Daytona,” said Art St. Cyr, president of Honda Performance Development (HPD), the racing arm for Acura in North America. “The debut of the NSX GT3 at the prestigious Rolex 24 will mark the return of the Acura brand to IMSA sports car competition. The addition of Graham and Ryan to an already excellent driver lineup, coupled with the experience provided by Michael Shank and his team, will make the NSX GT3 a serious contender for the GTD class victory at Daytona.”